After a conference last May where UW-Madison students said they felt minorities are represented negatively on campus, Vice Provost of Diversity and Climate Damon Williams will hold a town hall-style meeting Thursday for students to discuss campus climate and answered questions ahead of the meeting Monday night.
The Feb. 3 meeting will have four focuses: Student academic success, campus climate and campus media, diversity and student government and students and campus partnership.
""These are areas that have been identified by the working group as key areas that they want to discuss,"" Williams said. ""What I really want is [to discuss] how we can come together as a community and have a very proactive and positive conversation about what some solutions might be.""
He said students discussed their displeasure with the stereotypical portrayal of Native Americans and students dressed in blackface at a Badger hockey game on Halloween.
Williams said he assured students that he would hold a meeting to discuss their concerns when students said there was not enough activity on campus to prevent such problems.
